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Although this is not his most brilliant film, Jason Reitman (Up in The Air, Thank You for Smoking, Juno) has the merit of dealing with an uncommon theme. He talks about the impact that the use of new technologies has on the humans' behaviour.
Starting from the structure of the interwoven lives of seven Texan families, the director addresses issues such as isolation, parental control over children, infidelity, anorexia, pornography...
Throughout the film, the points of view are changing depending on the different characters who speak. However, there is something in common: the seven families have an obsession with technology. All of them search in the network what lacks in their personal lives, trying to find a solution to their problems on the Internet instead of facing them. Parents, so attached to the Internet as young people, will be utterly powerless to control the way their teens surf the web. The film talks about the dissatisfaction and confusion of some human beings who believe that the key to a better reality will come from opening websites. They are mostly stereotyped characters whose lives revolve around monosyllables and banal phrases.
Reitman criticizes openly and honestly the consequences that the use of new technologies may have on people who do not have a criterion. Those persons who do not control the technology but who are tyrannized by it.
The leitmotiv of the story is the influence that the Internet has in the way we relate to others and even to ourselves. However, the display of secondary themes is such that we have the feeling that some solidness and depth miss in the analysis.
Texts: Núria Farré. facebook@cinemaperaestudiants.cat
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